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Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 1 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 24. University of Colorado at Boulder scientists have used a fluorescent marker to predict the individual life spans of identical worms that were genetically engineered to illuminate stress levels, implying living organisms have "hidden physiological states" that dictate their ability to deal with the rigors of life.

Warner Imig, the longtime dean of the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music and a well-known conductor and choral director, died July 15 in Mesa, Ariz. He was 92. Imig joined the CU-Boulder faculty in 1937 as a teacher of voice and choral music and served as dean from 1951 to 1978. In 1978 the College of Music building was named in his honor.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is investigating two incidents of unauthorized access to a computer server, one used by Wardenburg Health Center and the other used by the Visual Resource Center of the College of Architecture and Planning. Both incidents create a potential identity theft problem for affected persons, although there is no evidence that personal information was stolen or used. The Wardenburg Health Center server contained personal information for approximately 42,000 students, faculty and staff members and a small number of visitors.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Linda Watkins has received a national award in recognition of her nearly 30 years of research into how the immune system enhances pain and the clinical implications of that for controlling chronic pain.

Marisol Lozano Roman, a senior at Skyline High School in Longmont, is the 2005 recipient of the University of Colorado at Boulder Parents Association CU-LEAD Scholarship. The CU Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity scholarship consists of $10,000 divided into four annual supplements of $2,500. The award was presented to Lozano Roman at a July 15 banquet for high school students who successfully completed the CU-Boulder Pre-Collegiate Development Summer Residential Program.

Note to Editors: Doug Duncan is available for interviews. For visuals, Fiske Planetarium has a large meteorite on display and Duncan has a portable, baseball-sized meteorite. Call Duncan at (303) 492-5003 or Greg Swenson at (303) 492-3113 to arrange an interview. The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event, will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado in early August, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium.

A student of the University of Colorado at Boulder is seeking donations after he and a friend crawled a world-record 32.26 miles on their hands and knees last month in Colorado Springs to raise money for pediatric AIDS research. CU-Boulder senior Leo Chau completed the 45-hour-long crawl at 3:30 a.m. June 11. He and friend Sean Duffy aimed to raise $20,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, but they remain more than $1,000 short of that goal.

More than two-dozen metro-area high school juniors and seniors are designing and building Mars rover models this week at the University of Colorado at Boulder's eighth annual Success Institute.

Office workers, musicians and golfers are among those who can benefit from a unique form of balance and movement training used by actors including Hillary Swank, Robin Williams and Paul Newman, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder professor. The Alexander Technique has been used by dozens of successful actors, athletes, musicians and others to combat chronic pain and repetitive motion injury, according to James Brody, a professor at the CU-Boulder College of Music.

NASA has awarded graduate fellowships to five University of Colorado at Boulder students for earth system science studies in 2005, the most awarded to any university in the nation. A total of 65 Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowships awarded to 41 universities by NASA for 2005-2006 are now pending acceptance by applicants at their respective institutions. Each graduate fellowship carries a one-year, $24,000 award that is renewable annually for up to three years based on academic progress and performance.